Software Acquirers - What were unexpected technical issues you came across?
July 26, 2023
by a professional in Lehighton, PA 18235, USA
What were some of the technical issues you came across when you took over the the software company?
- Legacy codebase? (Birds nest for technical reviews)
- Terrible support workflow?
- Bugs that plagued the userbase?
- Myriad of systems banded together?
- Tough support/developers who had their own thoughts?
etc.
Interested in hearing your experiences......
in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
from Roosevelt University in Boston, MA, USA
-Codebase is unnecessarily complex - Its not modular, hard to "read," does not follow common design patterns
-Programming language is hated - run from Perl, Delphi, and VBA, PHP, Objective-C, Coffeescript, and Ruby OR be prepared to spend big to rewrite
-Key developers with big egos - nobody wants to work with them
-Bad documentation - bad for current developers and increases ramp time of new developers
-Software does not minimize resource usage and thus is not consistently responsive.
-Application will quickly reach limits to handle more users, data, and transactions without significant performance degradation
-Too much code competence has been outsourced - it effectively lives outside of the organization